Prayer
List
Mark Morris
still needs our prayers.
Brenda
Williams, A.C. Quinn’s daughter is home recovering from a heart
attack.
Don Boyd’s
cancer has returned.
Andy LeDane,
Eddie Griffin, James and Florene Griffin, Jimmy Griffin, Jerry and
Betty Harris, Don Hickerson, Lester and Billie Phillips, Dan Tucker,
Mary Jean Turner, Armanda family, Jack and Diane Arnold, Betty Clark,
Doris James, Gary Hickerson, Bobbie King, Dan LeDane, Carol Moore,
Beryl Miller, Dean and Della Price, and Terry Turner.
Serving in
the military:
Dakota Smitherman has been deployed to Afghanistan.
Travis Counts has been deployed to Kuwait.
Faith Balzen
is in California.
Cody Blomstedt is in El Paso, Texas.
Let us pray
for our country and government leaders and those who are in harms
way, military and civilian personnel.
“The
effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much…
Pantry
Item: Microwave Popcorn
The Men’s
Business Meeting is next Sunday Dec. 11 after evening worship
services. All men are invited and encourage too attend.
Dec 11th
Prayers: Morning: Butch Balzen – Barry Cox
Evening: Jerry Harris – Charles Counts
Scriptures: Greg Counts
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Not
Saved By Faith Only
By
Louis Rushmore
Several
related responses to the Gospel work together to save a soul.
For example, when an honest person hears the Word of God, he
believes it, repents of sins, confesses that Jesus
is the Son of God and is baptized. These responses in this
order are God’s plan for saving a soul and are recorded in the New
Testament.
Though one cannot
do enough to earn salvation, our loving God has promised to save a
soul from his past sins when he sincerely makes these responses. But,
sometimes a person chooses one of these responses and ignores the
rest. Often belief (faith) is the single response chosen. However,
God has not promised to forgive the sins of a person whom only
believes or has faith only. No single response alone will
result in salvation. God clearly stated in the Book of James that a
person is saved “not by faith only” (James 2:24). Part of
Jesus Christ’s charge to take the Gospel to the world plainly shows
that several responses, in this case belief (faith) and baptism, work
together and result in salvation.
And He said
to them, “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to
every creature. He who believeth and is baptized will be
saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned,” (Mark
16:15-16).
If you are
an honest person and desire forgiveness of sins, when you understand
the Gospel, you will believe it, repent of sins, confess Jesus and be
baptized. An honest person who understands the Gospel responses
which God expects of him or her will not expect faith only to
save. Dear reader, are you truly saved?
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“He
who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges
him---the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.
For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me
gave a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak,”
(John 12:48-50).
We
need to understand, it is not what you believe, it is what God says.
It is one’s own responsibility to know what their obedience is to
God.